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Archive Category: 2006

Announcements:
Spring CourseWorks Workshops: CU Medical Center

December 15, 2006. CCNMTL offers workshops for instructors interested in learning the basics of the CourseWorks course management system. These one-hour sessions will provide an overview of CourseWorks and introduce participants to the system's rich features. All sessions meet in the PC Classroom on the second floor of the Hammer Health Sciences Library.

CourseWorks Basic Workshop

Learn the basics of course Web site development and how to apply technology to your teaching. The session covers the basics of CourseWorks, Columbia's course management system, and other tools.

• Wednesday, January 17, 2007: 12pm - 1pm

CourseWorks Advanced Workshop

Note: Participants of this workshop must have a basic knowledge of CourseWorks.

Learn advanced Web site development and how to apply technology to your teaching. The session covers more advanced topics of CourseWorks, Columbia's course management system, and other tools.

• Wednesday, January 24, 2007: 12pm - 1pm

Register online or contact us at (212) 854-9058 or ccnmtl-workshops@columbia.edu for more information.

Announcements:
Spring CourseWorks Workshops: Morningside

December 12, 2006. CCNMTL offers workshops for instructors interested in learning the basics of the CourseWorks course management system. The one-hour sessions will provide an overview of CourseWorks and introduce participants to the system's rich features, including the Discussion Board and the best ways to incorporate multimedia resources for the classroom.

The following workshops will be held in 204 Butler Library.

Spring Workshops:
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Introduction to CourseWorks
Thursday, January 11, 2007: 10:30am - 11:30am
Thursday, January 11, 2007: 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Friday, January 12, 2007: 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Tuesday, January 16, 2007: 10:30am - 11:30am
Tuesday, January 16, 2007: 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Tuesday, January 16, 2007: 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Wednesday, January 17, 2007: 10:30am - 11:30am
Wednesday, January 17, 2007: 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Thursday, January 18, 2007: 12:30pm - 1:30pm

Discussion Boards
Thursday, January 11, 2007: 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Wednesday, January 17, 2007: 3:30pm - 4:30pm

Media in the Classroom
Friday, January 12, 2007: 10:30 - 11:30am
Thursday, January 18, 2007: 10:30am - 11:30am

Register online or contact us at (212) 854-9058 or ccnmtl-workshops@columbia.edu to register for a session or for more information.

CourseWorks for Language Instructors
In addition, the following workshops will be held at the Language Resource Center in the International Affairs Building:

Friday, January 19, 2007: 2:00pm-4:00pm
Friday January 26, 2007: 2:00pm-4:00pm

For more information on CourseWorks workshops for language departments, contact vk169@columbia.edu.

Announcements:
Havel at Columbia Podcasts Featured on iTunes

December 8, 2006. The iTunes Store Podcast Directory featured the Havel at Columbia podcasts as one of its "New and Notable" educational podcasts. The podcasts document the many lectures, panels, and presentations that took place during the fall semester during Václav Havel's residency at Columbia University. The audio and video podcasts are available to anyone who visits the iTunes site.

In The News:
Spectator Discusses CU's Distance Learning Options

December 7, 2006. The Spectator published an article about Columbia University's distance learning initiatives, discussing efforts by Fathom and Digital Knowledge Ventures. The article concludes with a nod to CCNMTL's success in creating digital resources for classroom use.

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Announcements:
University Seminar: Siva Vaidhyanathan

December 6, 2006. Siva Vaidhyanathan, associate professor of Culture and Communication at New York University, will lead the University Seminar on New Media Teaching and Learning on December 14, 2006. Dr. Vaidhyanathan's research on intellectual property and the ways it shapes contemporary culture has resulted in two widely noted books: Copyrights and Copywrongs (2001), and The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control Is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System (2004).

In this and other writing, Dr. Vaidhyanathan has promoted a "hacker ethic" that "rests on openness, peer review, individual autonomy, and communal responsibility." In the seminar, he will discuss the implications of Google's Book Search service on reading, writing and research.

Date: Thursday, December 14, 2006, 4pm
Location: 523 Butler Library
Phone: (212) 854-9058
Register online

University Seminars in New Media Teaching and Learning

Siva Vaidhyanathan's blog

Announcements:
Five Years of CourseWorks at Columbia

December 5, 2006. This winter marks the fifth anniversary of CourseWorks at Columbia. When the course management system was first introduced in Spring 2002, it was used in about 640 courses. During the Fall 2006 semester, it has been used by more than 2,700 courses throughout Columbia University by more than 25,000 faculty, staff, and students. Over the years, CourseWorks has evolved to meet the growing needs of the University including a photo roster feature for instructors; an improved discussion board interface; a quiz and poll option; and guest access for Columbia-affiliated users with a valid UNI. These evolutionary changes will continue while we research a more comprehensive replacement that will incorporate many of the recent innovations in educational and colaborative tools while maintaining a solid course management infrastructure.

CourseWorks is offered by CUIT and the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning in close coordination with the Libraries and Columbia University Biomedical and Health Information Services. For more information on how to take advantage of the many features offered by CourseWorks, please browse the documentation or attend one of the workshops that will be offered in the upcoming spring semester.

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Features:
Kraft Program Series: Challenges of New Democracies

: A Conversation with Vaclav Havel and Bill Clinton

Features:
Havel at Columbia: President Lee Bollinger on Havel's residency

: Lee C. Bollinger on Vaclav Havel at Columbia

In The News:
CCNMTL's work on Havel site featured on Columbia homepage

November 13, 2006. The Columbia home page featured a link to a video called "Behind the Scenes at the Havel Web Site: In Conversation with CCNMTL," featuring interviews with Frank Moretti, John Frankfurt, and Mark Phillipson. The piece was put together by Robert Branch and Anne Burt of the Public Affairs Office.

Behind the Scenes at the Havel Web Site: In Conversation with CCNMTL

In The News:
Mapping at Columbia in Spectator

November 1, 2006. In an article about the various mapping and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technologies that are becoming available to undergraduates at Columbia, Spectator writer Josh Hirschland discussed the collaboration between CCNMTL and the libraries to create information overlays that can be loaded into Google Earth Pro in the Electronic Data Services facility in Lehman Library. The article also mentions CCNMTL's work on the Sacred Gotham site, created with professors John Hawley and Courtney Bender for their class on religion in New York.

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Announcements:
Press Release: Havel at Columbia Site Released

October 26, 2006. The Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning, in partnership with the Columbia University Arts Initiative, has released the Havel at Columbia site, a resource to support former Czech President Václav Havel's seven-week residency on campus. While he is on campus, the University community will pay tribute to his life and ideas with a number of lectures, symposia, screenings, and panel discussions.

The Havel at Columbia site contains a wide range of teaching and learning materials for classroom study of Havel's life and art, and will continue to grow throughout the semester as events and materials are added. The multimedia resource features video interviews with scholars, artists, and political figures contributing their insights on Václav Havel's legacy as an artist and political leader, including Dean Lisa Anderson from the School of International and Public Affairs, former President George H. W. Bush, Edward Albee, Milos Forman, Lou Reed, and George Soros. A timeline of events, an image glossary with photographs and primary documents, and archival footage from television and films provide historical context for the Velvet Revolution and Havel's presidency, making the site a rich educational resource both during and beyond his campus residency. The site will eventually feature video recordings of the many lectures, performances, and presentations that will take place through December. These will be available to view online and downloadable as podcasts.

View full press release (PDF)

Havel at Columbia

Announcements:
University Seminar: The Evolution of Video in Education

October 23, 2006. Join CCNMTL for a demonstration of Video Interactions for Teaching and Learning (VITAL) and a panel discussion on how the use of video has involved in educational practice. CCNMTL educational technologists will provide an overview of how the application is being used in a wide range of courses and discpline across Columbia University, from the School of Social Work to the School of the Arts.

Date: Thursday, November 2, 2006, 4pm
Location: 523 Butler Library
Phone: (212) 854-9058
Register online

University Seminar in New Media Teaching and Learning

Announcements:
University Seminar: Yochai Benkler

October 5, 2006. Yochai Benkler, Professor of Law at Yale Law School, will lead a discussion of commons-based peer production, intellectual property in a networked environment, and the effect of open collaboration on educational discourse. Benkler's recently published book "The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom" (Yale University Press, 2006), argues that new models of collaboration, enabled by technological innovation, are dramatically reshaping culture and economic relations, and in turn, human freedom and development. Exemplifying Benkler's interest in communal production, this work is available in its entirety online, and is the basis of a wiki that invites collaborative development of its themes.

Long a champion of unfettered exchange in networked environments, Benkler will describe new opportunities for educators as technology enables large-scale sharing of previously compartmentalized resources.

Date: Thursday, October 5, 2006, 4pm
Location: 523 Butler Library
Register online

University Seminars in New Media Teaching and Learning

In The News:
Video of CCNMTL Presentation at WNET Conference Now Available

September 25, 2006. This past June, Frank Moretti and John Frankfurt presented a promotional video for the proposed Harlem Digital Archive at the "Culture, Commerce, and Public Media: A New Forum for Creators" conference at the offices of WNET. Created in cooperation with Intelligent Television, the video addresses the potential of a Harlem Digital Archive that would permit researchers, educators, and documentarians to utilize vast resources to create interesting new works. The video was shown as part of a panel called "New Models of Educational Video Production."

The agenda and video archive of the presentation are available at: Preserving Digital Public Television.

View the presentation. (QuickTime Video)

Announcements:
New VITAL Released to Columbia and Hunter College

September 20, 2006. This fall, more than 300 students at Columbia University and Hunter College will use VITAL 3.0, the newest release of Video Interactions for Teaching and Learning, an interactive video learning environment created by the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning.

In 2004, the National Science Foundation awarded CCNMTL a $2.5 million grant to support the development of "Video Interactions for Teaching and Learning (VITAL): A Learning Environment for Courses in Early Childhood Mathematics Education" over five years. Led by the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning and Professor Herbert Ginsburg at Teachers College, the project will develop and distribute model courses and a Web-based resource to enhance undergraduate- and graduate-level mathematics education programs across the country. CCNMTL has also partnered with the Hunter College School of Education, where a great number of teachers in the New York public school system are trained in early childhood education.

Now more than two years into the grant period, CCNMTL has conducted extensive design research, gathering evaluations from faculty and student users to redesign and re-engineer the application for improved usability and to provide a more robust environment in which students watch videos and compose multimedia essays.

NSF funding has also enabled the project partners to videotape hundreds of new clips of young children engaged in mathematical activities, which are essential to the VITAL mathematics education curriculum. Faculty can adapt the model course according to their needs, whether they are teaching the full curriculum or a discrete modules to graduate or undergraduate students. During the remainder of the five-year grant period, the project partners will test VITAL and the new courses at universities around the country and conduct an evaluation of student learning outcomes.

This semester's VITAL 3.0 release is a limited test run of the new application, which is slated to be rolled out in a wider release in spring 2007. An earlier version is currently used in courses across several disciplines at Columbia University, including clinical social work, foreign languages, and film studies.

VITAL: Early Childhood Mathematics

Announcements:
NSF Grant to Enhance Brownfield Action

September 18, 2006. The National Science Foundation has awarded a grant of $450,000 to support the development and expansion of the award-winning environmental simulation Brownfield Action. The NSF-funded proposal, "Brownfield Action: Expansion and Evaluation of a Proven Inquiry-Based Approach to Teaching and Learning Environmental Science," is led by principal investigators Peter Bower, senior lecturer in the Department of Environmental Science at Barnard College and Frank Moretti, CCNMTL executive director. The grant will be used to update the simulation and to evaluate its effectiveness as it is deployed at partner institutions New York University, Connecticut College, Lafayette College, and Georgia State University.

In Brownfield Action, students play the role of environmental scientists charged with probing terrain suspected of being contaminated. The application simulates an actual field investigation, including interviews with local citizens and imposes budgetary constraints on the "scientists" as they collect and analyze data using tools to probe the ground, each with its own cost. Brownfield Action was named one of the Association of American Colleges and Universities' four Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities models in 2003.

Announcements:
Havel at Columbia site released

September 15, 2006. At the invitation of President Bollinger, Václav Havel will spend seven weeks during the fall 2006 semester at Columbia University, participating in lectures, interviews, conversations, classes, performances, and panels centered on his life and ideas. To accompany his residency, the CU Arts Initiative and the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning present Havel at Columbia. This multimedia resource features video interviews with a range of scholars and friends of Václav Havel, including Lisa Anderson, George Soros, Brad Abrams, and Chris Harwood, who contribute their insights into his legacy as an artist and political leader. The site also contains a wide range of material about Havel's life and art, including a timeline of events, image glossary, and archival films that can be used in the classroom during and beyond his campus residency.

Havel at Columbia

Features:
Virtual Techniques in Dentistry: Video

: VirTechs Video: Pediatrics Module

Announcements:
Virtual Techniques in Dentistry (VirTechs) Released

September 12, 2006. Faculty from the College of Dental Medicine have collaborated with CCNMTL to update Virtual Techniques in Dentistry (VirTechs). The Web site serves as a multimedia laboratory procedure manual, providing students with immediate access to a collection of videos of dental procedures from Dental Anatomy and Occlusion, Pediatrics, and Endodontics. Students have the option of viewing each procedure with captions or without, and to navigate the videos by using bookmarks that indicate discrete steps within each procedure. The site emphasizes functionality and easy access to the videos, which can be viewed online or downloaded to a computer. Additionally, the procedures are available as enhanced video podcasts for use with video iPods. Each module includes PDFs of the transcript and full-color armamentarium descriptions.

VirTechs

Announcements:
Press Release: Spring Grants for CCNMTL and Partners

August 30, 2006. The Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL) has secured or helped secure substantial grant funding this past spring. Most of the funding will support the deployment of innovative technologies for course work and the development of pedagogical strategies that encourage students to engage fully with course material in disciplines that span the humanities, sciences, and social sciences, both at the undergraduate and graduate levels. A new facet to some of these grant-funded projects is a community service-oriented component, part of CCNMTL's new Triangle Initiative that seeks to extend the benefits of University research into the classroom and to the community beyond Columbia.

View press release (PDF)

Press Release:
Successful Grant Proposals Help CCNMTL Expand Project Development

New York, August 10, 2006. The Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL) has secured or helped secure substantial grant funding this past spring. Most of the funding will support the deployment of innovative technologies for course work and the development of pedagogical strategies that encourage students to engage fully with course material in disciplines that span the humanities, sciences, and social sciences, both at the undergraduate and graduate levels. A new facet to some of these grant-funded projects is a community service-oriented component, part of CCNMTL's new Triangle Initiative that seeks to extend the benefits of University research into the classroom and to the community beyond Columbia. Below is a sampling of these projects:

CCNMTL and the School of Social Work continue to build upon a strong partnership with two successful grant proposals that are key elements of the Triangle Initiative. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) awarded Project Connect, led by PI Professor Susan Witte, a two-year grant of $400,000 to disseminate HIV interventions based on research produced by the Social Interventions Group. CCNMTL will receive approximately $271,000 to help develop technology and media for a multimedia version of Project Connect, components of which are currently being used in courses and tested in metro area clinics.

Also from the School of Social Work, Ellen Lukens (PI), Peggy O'Neill and Helle Thorning of the Center for Family Education and Resilience have been awarded a grant of $45,000 to develop HOPE-NY, a curriculum to train NYC officials and community leaders to deal with trauma in the event of community disasters or public health emergencies. CCNMTL will receive a subcontract for $16,000 to assist in the development of a small pilot prototype.

The Center for Jazz Studies, led by Professor Robert O'Meally, Director for Jazz Studies, has received a three-year $1 million grant from the Ford Foundation. CCNMTL will receive approximately $241,000 to produce a Jazz Sonic Glossary, as well as an implementation of Video Interactions in Teaching and Learning (VITAL) that will include a library of videos of jazz performances to be deployed this fall in Jazz Studies courses.

CCNTML has also received a one-year gift of $200,000 from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to increase the understanding of educators, technologists, video producers, and other stakeholders about potential uses of video and open content. As part of this grant, Peter Kaufman, director of Intelligent Television, joins CCNMTL as an associate director to provide leadership with initiatives related to video and open content, including producing a conference to be held at Columbia in the spring of 2007.

The School of Journalism received a $1.25 million grant from the Knight Foundation to establish the Knight Case Studies Initiative to promote journalism leadership. CCNMTL will develop the case studies into interactive modules, which, coupled with classroom discussion, will teach the process of newsroom decision-making in ways that further the creation of fair, accurate, contextual news in the public interest. Columbia has already tested three cases. The first follows one day’s news cycle at The Washington Post from the point of view of Leonard Downie Jr., the paper’s executive editor, who decides what to put on the front page. Another looks at the reporting from Knight Ridder’s Washington bureau on Iraq’s weapons capabilities during the buildup to and aftermath of the 2003 invasion. Knight Ridder was significantly more skeptical about those capabilities than most American news organizations, and the case illustrates how to question the official version of the news on national security matters. The third case leads students through an analysis of the data available to reporters covering Hurricane Katrina.

In addition, Video Interactions for Teaching and Learning (VITAL): A Learning Environment for Courses in Early Mathematics Education, was approved for a third year of funding from the National Science Foundation at approximately $460,000. Originally awarded to CCNMTL and Teachers College in 2004, this grant supports the development of a learning environment that consists of a curriculum for early childhood mathematics education and a digital library of videos within an online community workspace.

View release as PDF

In The News:
Wikimania 2006: Boston Globe Quotes Jonah Bossewitch

August 9, 2006. Jonah Bossewitch and Frank Moretti attended Wikimania 2006, which took place in Cambridge, MA from August 4-6. The Boston Globe covered the conference and how users are taking advantage of wikis as tools for social activism, featuring a link to the Social Justice Wiki and a quote from Jonah Bossewitch.

See full article

In The News:
CCNMTL in Hunter College School of Education Publication

July 31, 2006. The Hunter College School of Education has announced its partnership with CCNMTL in the Video Interactions for Teaching and Learning (VITAL) NSF project in its 2005-2006 Highlights publication entitled "Opening Windows: Dr. David M. Steiner, Klara & Larry Silverstein Dean, Hunter College School of Education."

The announcement acknowledges receipt of a grant to the Hunter College School of Education from CCNMTL and its partnership, in which Professor Joon Lee of the Department of Curriculum and Teaching will be the Principal Investigator on a project that involves a number of faculty at Hunter's School of Education.

In The News:
School of Journalism Receives Knight Foundation Grant

June 29, 2006. The School of Journalism's grant to develop case studies from the Knight Foundation was featured on Columbia's news page. CCNMTL is an active partner in developing multimedia environments for these case studies.

Knight Foundation Grant Funds Leadership Initiative

Announcements:
CCNMTL Hosts Big Apple Plone Sprint

June 29, 2006. From July 5-7, 2006, CCNMTL will host the Big Apple Plone Sprint. Plone is an open source content management system that the Center has used to deliver a number of projects. At a software sprint, a number of developers from various companies or institutions gather to work on programming challenges in a concentrated effort. This sprint will focus on additions to Plone that can make an impact in educational technology, including RSS, podcasting, annotations, tagging, and blogging.

Big Apple Sprint 2006

Press Release:
Journalism School Announces Grant from Knight Foundation

June 22, 2006. The School of Journalism has received a $1.25 million grant from the Knight Foundation that will establish the Knight Case Studies Initiative
to promote journalism leadership. The case studies will be developed into interactive modules by CCNMTL, which, coupled with classroom discussion, will teach the process of newsroom decision-making in ways that further the creation of fair, accurate, contextual news in the public interest.

Columbia has already tested three cases. The first follows one day’s news cycle at The Washington Post from the point of view of Leonard Downie Jr., the paper’s executive editor, who decides what to put on the front page. Another looks at the reporting from Knight Ridder’s Washington bureau on Iraq’s weapons capabilities during the buildup to and aftermath of the 2003 invasion. Knight Ridder was significantly more skeptical about those capabilities than most American news organizations, and the case illustrates how to question the official version of the news on national security matters. The third case leads students through an analysis of the data available to reporters covering Hurricane Katrina.

Press release from the School of Journalism

Announcements:
College of Dental Medicine Faculty Discuss CCNMTL Tools

June 6, 2006. The annual College of Dental Medicine (CDM) retreat, held on Saturday, June 2nd, featured workshops designed by CCNMTL highlighting current and potential uses of technology to help the faculty teach more effectively. In a series of group sessions, CCNMTL staff moderated discussions on topics including:

• Teaching Clinical Techniques - Video Technologies, VirTechs, VITAL
• Case-Based Learning - Case Building Tool, Image Annotation Tool, Image Database
• Large Lecture Classes - Podcasting, Presentation Software, CourseWorks Best Practices
• Portfolios - Supporting Life-Long Learning, Assessment and Communities of Learning

The goal of the workshops was to expose CDM faculty to technologies, some already in use by the school, that can enhance teaching and learning as well as to gauge their particular needs as a group. The sessions led to interesting and motivating discussions within the faculty.

Other schools and departments interested in similar workshops should email their CCNMTL contact or send email to ccnmtl@columbia.edu.

In The News:
University of Glasgow Newsletter Highlights CCNMTL Trip to Glasgow

May 26, 2006. The University of Glasgow Newsletter published a brief summary of Frank Moretti and Maurice Matiz's recent visit to Scotland.

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Announcements:
CCNMTL's International Journeys

June 2, 2006. Frank Moretti and Maurice Matiz travelled to the University of Glasgow from May 10-16 as part of a Columbia University contingent fostering greater collaboration between the two institutions. They presented the Center's work and methodology to many of the university's schools and departments, including medical and dental, veterinary, business, and education faculty, as well as to the new media group and the university's senior administration.

Meanwhile, Educational Technologist Jonathan Hall was invited to consult on the use of IT at the new King's Academy, a progressive, co-educational boarding high school in Jordan. From May 6-15, he visited the new campus, modeled on Deerfield Academy in Deerfield, Massachusetts, to meet with numerous leaders in the Jordanian education and IT sectors, including Minister of Education Dr. Khaled Toukan and His Majesty King Abdullah II. The school, which will open in September 2007, is intended to be a leading institution internationally in the innovative use of technologies in educational, social, and operational life.

Announcements:
Film Language Glossary Evaluation Now Available

June 1, 2006. The Film Language Glossary 2005 evaluation report is now available on CCNMTL's Project Evaluations page.

The evaluation describes the context in which the Film Language Glossary was produced and implemented in Professor Richard Peña's Fall 2005 graduate course "Introduction to Film Studies." The document covers the design and deployment of the Glossary in Peña's class; an overview of the findings derived from this evaluation; and, finally, recommendations for future implementations of the Glossary in the classroom.

Film Language Glossary Evaluation

In The News:
WGBH Posts New Media in Education Videos

May 17, 2006. WGBH Forum Network, an affiliate of the Boston PBS station, has posted the podcasts and videos from this year's New Media in Education conference on their Web site.

New Media in Education 2006: A Progress Report
Frank Moretti, executive director, CCNMTL

A Partnership in Educational Innovation
David J. Helfand, professor, astronomy, Columbia University

Virtual Fieldwork for Pre-Professional Education
Angela Calabrese-Barton, professor, Teachers College

New Technologies Serving Educational Goals>
Lisa Gordis, professor, Barnard College

New Directions: Research, Education & Community Service
Frank Moretti, executive director, CCNMTL

These videos are also available as podcasts on CCNMTL's New Media in Education 2006 site.

Announcements:
CDC Grant for School of Social Work's HIV Intervention

May 11, 2006. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has awarded the School of Social Work a two-year grant of $400,000 for the dissemination of an HIV intervention model developed by the Social Interventions Group. Led by Professor Susan Witte, Project Connect is the first relationship-based HIV/STI prevention intervention for couples to be developed and tested in efficacy trials. CCNMTL will receive $271,000 of the grant to help develop technology and media for Multimedia Connect.

Announcements:
Released: ePrep | Emergency Preparedness Training

April 28, 2006. The School of Nursing and the New York Presbyterian Healthcare System have released the ePrep project, a six-module series for hospital and community-based clinicians focusing on the command and management aspects of Emergency Preparedness. This project is part of a national effort to increase and improve emergency preparedness in hospitals throughout the United States.

The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) has supported this effort in recognition of the critical need to provide health care professionals across disciplines with skills that strengthen their ability to respond to public health emergencies (whether natural or manmade) within the larger context of city, state, and national emergency response plans and protocols.

CCNMTL worked with an advisory board from the Bioterrorism Curriculum Development Project and the New York-Presbyterian Healthcare System Preparedness Council to develop the modules: The Basics (of emergency preparedness), Biological Incidents, Chemical Incidents, Explosive Incidents, Radiological Incidents, and Incidents Affecting Children. Each module begins with a realistic scenario and continually engages users with cases, Q&A, reflective moments, and thought provoking questions. Users can elect to take each of the the modules for Continuing Education credit.

ePrep | Emergency Preparedness Training

Announcements:
Rebalancing Copyright Conference Podcasts Released

April 12, 2006. Audio and video podcasts from the Correcting Course: Rebalancing Copyright conference are now available. Held in May 2005, the conference attempted to promote a renewed activism in support of fair use and the full complement of copyright exceptions and limitations which enable libraries to serve their communities. Click on the links below to download the podcasts.

In The News:
Barnard News Center Reports on ELEA Blogs

April 11, 2006. The Barnard home page featured an article about CCNMTL's student blogs project for Diane Dittrick's Environmental Literature, Ethics and Action (ELEA) course. Educational technologist Jonathan Hall describes the difference between the work students produced for blogs compared to those of traditional response papers. The article will also appear in the spring issue of Barnard Magazine.

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Announcements:
CCNMTL Projects Included in World Leaders Forum

March 22, 2006. The World Leaders Forum site features several CCNMTL projects as University-produced resources to supplement the Seen From Abroad film series that is taking place on campus this week. The three-day event features four full-length foreign films and a panel discussion between major international film critics moderated by David Denby, film critic for the New Yorker. The site features four CCNMTL projects: the Film Language Glossary, Kaleidoscope, Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children Multimedia Study Environment, and Dr. B. R. Ambedkar's Annihilation of Caste Multimedia Study Environment were selected for their relevance to the international films.

Announcements:
African-American Poets Wiki Launched

March 21, 2006. This spring, the African-American Poets: Brooks and Hughes wiki has been deployed in Professor Farah Griffin's undergraduate course, "African American Literature," which explores the development of black writing in the United States since the Harlem Renaissance.

Within the collaborative Web site, students are asked to conduct both a textual and extra-textual analysis of poems by Langston Hughes and Gwendolyn Brooks by selecting key sections, phrases and words of the works to annotate as well as authoring and categorizing relevant discourse, such as the cultural context, social significance and relationship of the texts to other literary movements. At the conclusion of the semester, CCNMTL will evaluate how the design and deployment of the wiki supported Professor Griffin's curricular goals.

Announcements:
Open CourseWare Presented

March 3, 2006. On February 23, John Dehlin, Director of Outreach for the Center for Open and Sustainable Learning (COSL) based at Utah State University, joined CCNMTL for a presentation on the OpenCourseWare movement in which he described eduCommons, software that is available to assist Universities interested in hosting open courses.

Mr. Dehlin provided an overview of the OpenCourseWare project, which was inaugurated in 1999 when the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) began making their university course materials available for free on the Internet. Today, the materials for over 1200 courses can be found on http://ocw.mit.edu. Many other universities, including Johns Hopkins, Harvard, Tufts, Michigan, Utah State, Notre Dame, and several Japanese universities are now creating OpenCourseWare sites as well. These sites are providing tangible benefit to the participating universities, departments and faculty - not to mention learners all over the world.

Mr. Dehlin also discussed the OpenCourseWare Consortium, recently formed to provide support, awareness, and membership affiliation to all institutions who are interested in joining the OpenCourseWare movement.

The session was attended by staff from the Libraries, CUIT, Teachers College and CCNMTL, as well as students interested in the movement.

The Center for Open and Sustainable Learning

Features:
NME 2006 Audio Podcast Available

: NME 2006 Conference Audio Podcast

In The News:
New Media in Education Conference Profiled in The Record

February 8, 2006. The third biennial New Media in Education conference was profiled in the February 8, 2006 issue of Columbia University's The Record. The article entitled, "New Media and Education: A Progress Report," included summaries of presentations given by Professors David Helfand, David Klatell, Richard Pena, Lisa Gordis, Letty Moss-Salentijn, and Susan Witte. A sidebar about podcasting, specifically highlighting Dr. Letty Moss-Salentijn's most recent lecture, was included. Both Maurice Matiz and Frank Moretti were quoted in the article.

This article also appeared on the Columbia University home page.

See full article

Announcements:
Carnegie Mellon Scientists Present at University Seminar

February 7, 2006. Scientists from Carnegie Mellon University's Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Howard Wactlar, Michael Christel and Scott Stevens, demonstrated and discussed the educational application of two innovative video technologies, Informedia and CareMedia, at this month's University Seminar in New Media Teaching & Learning.

University Seminars in New Media Teaching and Learning

Announcements:
School of Social Work Maps Social Support Networks

February 6, 2006. School of Social Work Professor Susan Witte introduced an interactive version of the Social Support Network Map in her "Advanced Clinical Practice: Contemporary Social Problems" course. The Flash-based tool, developed by CCNMTL, allowed student pairs to easily and interactively create support maps for clients after having learned about the use of these maps in clinical practice. In a post course survey, students unanimously felt that the mapping tool helped them gain a better understanding of the clinical technique.

Announcements:
SimCity Incorporated into Art History Course

February 6, 2006. Last fall, Professor Hilary Ballon used the popular game SimCity in her "The American City: Urban Forms and Social Patterns" course to create realistic scenarios faced by urban designers. Working in groups, students developed strategies to deal with population growth, transportation and traffic, cultural and religious education, zoning, and infrastructure. One student reported, "Many of the challenges facing urban designers, like the difficulties in creating a comprehensive city-wide water system, which had seemed trivial in class, became all important when it came to enticing residents to the city. We saw the effect that different street grids had on growth and evaluated the boon that public transportation gave to neighborhoods."

Press Release:
CCNMTL Hosts Third New Media in Education Conference

New York, January 25, 2006. The Columbia Center for New Media Teaching & Learning (CCNMTL) will host its third biennial conference, “New Media in Education 2006: A Progress Report,” on Friday, January 27, 2006 in Low Memorial Library. The conference on new media technology in education will include faculty panels and demonstrations of many of CCNMTL’s projects, including Video Interactions in Teaching and Learning (VITAL), the Educational Multimedia Case Constructor (EMCC), and The Autobiography of Malcolm X Multimedia Study Environment.

“The goal of our third New Media in Education conference is to highlight some of the innovations that have evolved since CCNMTL began its work seven years ago,” says Dr. Frank Moretti, executive director of CCNMTL. "This conference provides an opportunity to share our commitment to current developments in technology while reflecting upon newly emerging pedagogical best practices."

This year’s conference includes panel discussions:

• A Partnership in Educational Innovation, featuring Columbia College's core science course, Frontiers of Science and the School of Journalism's The Washington Post Case Study;

• Virtual Fieldwork for Pre-Professional Education, featuring Video Interactions in Teaching and Learning (VITAL) and its role in graduate programs at Teachers College, the School of Social Work, and the School of Dental and Oral Surgery;

• New Technologies Serving Educational Goals, highlighting collaborative Web sites and media-rich resources and study environments;

• New Directions: Research, Education, and Community Service, discussing new efforts at CCNMTL to leverage multimedia adaptations of University research for use in Columbia's classes and the broader community.

In addition to these panels, the conference will include workshops on new technologies, such as podcasting, blogs, and Web services. There will be a faculty computer lab, where conference participants will be able to review CCNMTL projects and services and meet with panelists.

All members of the Columbia community are invited to attend this free conference. It will highlight the instructor's perspective, but librarians, information technology staff, and administrators supporting courses are welcome to participate. More information and online registration is available at http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/nme2006.

Press Release

In The News:
Podcasting in the New York Post

January 23, 2006. The New York Post spoke to Dr. Letty Moss-Salentijn about how professors are podcasting their lectures in an article published on January 23, 2006. Maurice Matiz was also quoted in the article.

See the full article.

In The News:
IAT Featured in InVivo

January 7, 2006. The Columbia University Medical Center's newsletter InVivo featured an article about the Image Annotation Tool (IAT) in the December 2005/January 2006 issue. Writer Keely Savoie interviewed Professor Letty Moss-Salentijn about how her collaboration with CCNMTL resulted in the creation of a tool that helps students in her oral histology course to gain exposure to an interactive library of digital images.

See full article.

Announcements:
Spring CourseWorks Workshops: CU Medical Center

January 5, 2006. CCNMTL offers workshops for instructors interested in learning the basics of the CourseWorks course management system. These one-hour sessions will provide an overview of CourseWorks and introduce participants to the system's rich features. All sessions meet in the PC Classroom on the second floor of the Hammer Health Sciences Library.

CourseWorks Basic Workshop
Learn the basics of course Web site development and how to apply technology to your teaching. The session covers the basics of CourseWorks, Columbia's course management system, and other tools.

• Wednesday, January 18, 2006: 11am - 12pm
• Wednesday, January 25, 2006: 1pm - 2pm

CourseWorks Advanced Workshop
Note: Participants of this workshop must have a basic knowledge of CourseWorks.
Learn advanced Web site development and how to apply technology to your teaching. The session covers the basics of CourseWorks, Columbia's course management system, and other tools.

• Friday, January 20, 2006: 10am - 11am
• Friday, January 27, 2006: 11am - 12pm

Contact us at (212) 854-9058 or ccnmtl-workshops@columbia.edu to register or for more information.